Inflorescence. Inflorescence a single spike or a single raceme (long-pedunculate), a single raceme or spike.

Spikelets. Spikelets laterally compressed, more than 2 flowered, with 2 or more fertile florets, solitary, subsessile or pedicelled (all on one side of axis); with naked rachilla extension. Fertile spikelets disarticulating above glumes.

Glumes. Glumes more or less equal, shorter than adjacent lemmas or long relative to adjacent lemmas, awnless, keeled (the lower) or non-keeled (the upper being keeled only at the tip), dissimilar. Lower glume 1 nerved. Upper glume 3 nerved.